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The tale

You have many directories containing many files and files types. It is a mess and needs to be organized in some manner.

Project #1

Assume you have single directory containing many files and file types.

Create a test directory for this project. Copy many files and file types to the test directory.

Write a program to organize the files in the test directory.

• create a directory for the organized files
• in the organize directory, create a subdirectory for each file type
• move files to the appropriate subdirectories
• display
  1. each directory/subdirectory name
  2. the number of files in each directory

Create subdirectories as needed. (i.e. Create a subdirectory only when there is a file to go in it.)

This organizes each file by file type.

Project #2

Assume you have many directories containing many files and file types. Create a test directory tree for this project.

1. create a root directory for the test tree
2. create subdirectories (perhaps one subdirectory for each project? Or one for each category: utilities, servers, ...?)
3. copy many files and file types to the test tree
4. the same file name can be in multiple directories (i.e. "config.txt")

Write a program to organize the files in the test tree.

• create a root directory for the organized-file-tree
• in the organized-file-tree root create subdirectories for each "project"
• under each project, utility, ... subdirectory, create a subdirectory for each file type
• move files to the appropriate subdirectories
• display
  1. each directory/subdirectory name
  2. the number of files in each directory

This organizes each file type under each project, utility, ...

Create subdirectories as needed. (i.e. Create a subdirectory only when there is a file to go in it.)

Are sub subdirectories needed? They may be needed depending on your file sources and the organized tree structure you want. (e.g. different file versions?)

Project #3

Write a program to organize the files in the Project #2 test tree.

1. create a root directory for the organized-files-tree
2. under the organized-file-tree root, create a subdirectory for each file type
3. under each file type directory, create a subdirectory for each project, utility, ...
4. move files to the appropriate subdirectories
5. display
   1. each directory/subdirectory name
   2. the number of files in each directory

Create subdirectories as needed. (i.e. Create a subdirectory only when there is a file to go in it.)

This organizes each "project" under each file type.

Project #4

How would you organize file differently? Test your method of organizing.